Under the conditions of quasitransverse propagation of electromagnetic
waves in a magnetoionic plasma, the effect analogous to Faraday
rotation in the quasilongítudinal case (which we will call Faraday pulsation)
can produce a large elliptical polarization of originally linearly
polarized radiation. Therefore, the presence of elliptical polarization
in the radiation cannot serve as a means for distinguishing between a
synchrotron mechanism with high energy electrons and any other type of
emission process in radio sources in which conditions suggesting quasi -
transverse propagation (large magnetic fields) may take place. The
Faraday pulsation has a wavelength dependence through which it can be
identified.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/623879 |
| Date | January 1970 |
| Creators | Pacholczyk, A. G., Swihart, T. L. |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Steward Observ |
| Publisher | Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Article |
| Source | Steward Observatory Parker Library SO QB 4 .S752 ARCH |
| Rights | Copyright © All Rights Reserved. |
| Relation | Preprints of the Steward Observatory #25, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1970ApJ...161..415P&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=3ed65e9cd013828 |
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